12:08 AM,
Aug. 6, 2013

Singer and activist Harry Belafonte talks with Phillip Agnew of the Dream Defenders at the Capitol on July 26.

Written by

Karl Etters
| Democrat staff writer

Heading into the fourth week of occupying the Florida Capitol, demonstrators have shown that they are a group to be taken seriously in their efforts to change Florida's laws regarding school arrests, racial profiling and its controversial self-defense statute, Stand Your Ground.

The group, made up mostly of social activists with the Dream Defenders, has gained traction in the political realm despite early naysayers who never expected them to make it 22 days.

Dream Defenders Executive Director Phillip Agnew said in those 22 days, in which people have slept inside the Capitol overnight in ...